topic Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"? in Libraries & objects

A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:50:38 GMT

Hi,
When mirroring a row of "Parking Stall 12" the text number of stalls do not retain their position and they mirror also. Am I missing a setting? Have been looking for it all over.
I wish GS would make this object a little more real life like.
Thanks,
Joseph

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Erika Epstein — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:08:40 GMT

Instead of mirroring which as you note also mirrors the text change the angle of the stripes
On the parameter tab>Width>angle

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:24:56 GMT

Erika wrote:
Instead of mirroring which as you note also mirrors the text change the angle of the stripes
On the parameter tab>Width>angle

Nice thought, but it is limited to + and - 60 deg.?
Any other tricks?
Thanks,
Joseph

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Erika Epstein — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:44:08 GMT

Joseph,
Just what are you trying to accomplish?

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:02:43 GMT

Erika wrote:
Joseph,
Just what are you trying to accomplish?

Trying to create parking back to back with text not upside down, see the image.
Thanks

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Erika Epstein — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:54:06 GMT

None of the 3 parking library parts do everything it should. The one you are using is the only one that can slope to follow the ground, but you are stuck with stripes on all sides, or at 4 corners or none. None of these are standard striping conventions around here.

The other two can't slope, but you can move the text and/or rotate the text orientation.

Make up your mind which is most important...or add the parameters you want to the one that comes closest.

Yet another example of inadequate library parts.

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:06:00 GMT

Hi Folks,

If you could post the object here I would give it a look...

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:25:58 GMT

Braza wrote:
Hi Folks,

If you could post the object here I would give it a look...

Here it is,

If the goodies of the other parking.gsm's could be brought into this one and as Erika said the location of painting strips & the numbering could be fix we will have one Green Parking tool.
Thanks,
Joseph

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:04:18 GMT

Hi Joseph,

Here it is...

Hope that helps.

p.s.: Check the last post for the final version of the attatchment.

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:52:18 GMT

Braza wrote:
Hi Joseph,

Here it is...

Hope that helps.

Thanks a mil. it works great. The best part is that it does not give a duplicate message when GS version is loaded with yours!? And on top of that my schedule schemes pickup both the GS version and yours in the same schedule.

The only issue is when Connect at End is set in the Line setting which shows a piece of the Strip Width, if this could be fixed and possibility addition of the option, "Connect at Both Ends" it would be great.
Thanks,
Joseph

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:19:24 GMT

Hi Joseph,

You're welcome!

Here is the last version... I've found a couple of bugs and fixed them.

Thanks for the beta testing.

p.s.: Check the last post for the final version of the attatchment.

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Erika Epstein — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:10:32 GMT

Thanks Paulo!

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:48:03 GMT

Hi Folks,

Ok... I forgot to check the 3d view...

and added a 2d/3d switch for more control.

Here is the final one... (hope) 😉

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:29:09 GMT

Braza wrote:
Hi Folks,

Ok... I forgot to check the 3d view...

and added a 2d/3d switch for more control.

Here is the final one... (hope) 😉

Looks great and thanks,
Yet this last version now shows a double in conjunction with the GS's Parking Stall library. Can this be remedied?
Thanks,
Joseph

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:45:53 GMT

Hi Joseph,

I'm not having these warnings here in my pc...

Try unloading and reloading both objects.

Hope that helps.

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Erika Epstein — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:28:27 GMT

Joseph, you can also give Paulo's version a unique name so there is no confict with the AC12 library.

"Parking Stall 12 Paulo" ?

Down the road you will remember where it came from.

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:33:27 GMT

It must be an internal code..?!
May be when AC13 is out this error will go out also.
Erika, a better name does not resolve the issue
Joseph

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:24:04 GMT

Joseph,

Sometime ago I changed the object subtype and it solved the problem...

Try this:

Open one object...

Take a look on the screen shot and go to the subtype section...

Change the subtype for another one and save it and close...

Go to de library manager and reload the library...

Finally repeat the same procedure to restore the original subtype.

It seems that this procedure changes the internal code of the object.

HTH

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:13:10 GMT

But be careful changing subtypes of objects.
I think if you change the subtype of and object, all parameters coming from the previous subtype will be gone, and different parameters coming from the new subtype will appear.
Although the original set of subtype-based parameters will come back if you change the subtype back, their default values may be reset to values coming from the subtype.
This may or may not cause any problems with already placed intances of the object.

Re: A Bug in "Parking Stall 12"?

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 10:44:46 GMT

Hi Laszlo,

Indeed changing subtypes should be done carefully... as it can produce very unexpected bad results.

I also would recommend to save a copy (with another name) of your object before doing this procedure.

Thanks for the heads up Laszlo...